TCEA notes 2-9-11

21st Century Learning

Used www.polleverywhere.com to take a poll of the room.

Slides will be posted
Penultimate -- 99c app for writing notes, saves the pages in a notebook.

Pogosketch; $16 stylus that works the best...

Sundrynotes -- integrates applications into a note taker, whiteboard, audio, pictures.

There is a suite of sundry stuff

Dragon dictation.

Voice cards. Makes voice flash cards.

Drop box
Fliq notes
Box.net

Documents -- iPad only app creates a google doc on your iPad.
Google docs lite edits a google doc.

Adobe ideas -- can draw, use as a whiteboard.

Icard -- sort index cards on a table that you sort.

Popplet -- a brainstorming tool
123 writing numbers
Doodleishious
Quick graph -- math teacher high school graphs equations in 3d

Using am Elmo and an iPad, move in and out of camera view to reset the brightness settings.

MathBoard Addition -- step problem solving.

Wikihood -- pulls up your surrounding area.

Deggo sharing -- links to information. Can use as a management tool.

Skype on the iPad doesn't have video, just audio.

Zootube -- kid friendly search for YouTube. Zoodles.

iMathmatics -- for older students, tells you the definition, and shows graphical repesentation.

History tools:


History maps


No Limits to Learning: Timeless Technology Integration
Lisa Basile
Jennifer Engels
Lori Lambert

Will have a link to share materials on project share.

Using google earth to calculate using the ruler tools.




https://sites.google.com/site/tceafacebook/

Why we opened FaceBook to our teachers at Westlake High School

Teacher is the center of the universe vs everything is brought in to the classroom

Opening up collaboration.

Do we want to reinvent the wheel?

Meetings had ground rules
- teachers created a professional account
- use the school initials at the first of our names
- staff and student training
- helps with the "professional" aspect
- how do you handle inappropriate activity

Voluntary effort, FB was unlocked for the ones who attended training.
Focused on acceptable use policy, showed some wrong uses
They had to offer student training as well, to show them how to use the privacy setting, to avoid the "creepiness" factor, it became a one-sided conversation.

Opted for the privacy settings. Inappropriate stuff was handled as a training session. They feel like this provides a service to students about proper use, I.e., it wouldn't be appropriate for your employer to see this...

Needed technical support, the filter, administrator support.

Put in best practices and good conduct use procedures and ground rules.

Experimented with "groups" at first, teachers can create a group, and it eliminates the necessity to "friend"' can't see private data or pictures. Everyone can participate.
Groups took off.


Instruction. -- tutorials, Tips, latest information.



Supercomputing in Plain English
Raymond Rose
Bonnie Sutton
Henry Neeman

High-performance computer
High end computing
The fastest computer today is in China

The limiting factors
Storage hierarchy
Parallel tasking

OSCER (Oklahoma State University)
TeraGrid 11 sites from coast to coast
Weather forecasting
High energy physics
Chemical engineering

They have a free videoconference link, anyone can use it.
Clusters are linked nodes with software driving
Condor pool - allows idle PCs to be used for number crunching.
I wonder I there is a way to make our school computer lab into a supercomputer?

Why bother with HPC?

It puts you ahead of the curve. moore'S law
So what's in HPC today will be on desktops, cell phones, laptops tomorrow.
Graphics cards can do what supercomputers did a few years ago.
CSI shows are unrealistic, $$

Data mining


Will Moore'S law hit the wall? Not for a while.


DYK: A discussion of Online Safety
www.humbleisd.net/tcea2011

The TASB policy people will come out? And do training for us; re: Policy and Internet safety.

Super log off, white walling, clean up their status, FaceBook tips. Social steganography -- code behind the code, hiding things behind their status updates, when you are their "parent friend".




Title IID Connections Grant Meeting
2-9-2011 5:00 PM
Austin Convention Center

Kathy Ferguson and Tammy Torres

Outreach portion of the program

Dublin ISD
http://goo.gl/2kZHH

Post one way they are integrating technology
Using project Share internally
They would like to connect with CSCOPE users

Brownwood ISD
Modified their cell phone policy (we need to have this discussion)
To use the cell phone polling website
IDEA!!! Use the polling website to develop my TAKS administration training!!!

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Arp ISD

Digital videos of teachers working the problems, most parents can't help their kids above the 4th grade on math or science.

Students Working to Assist Technology Helpers for teachers -- SWAT teams.

iTunes at tea.state.TX.us how we can put our videos on iTunes U.